Religious Studies

Given the criticism of compassion expressed as far back as antiquity, its positive assessment and relevance to theology, Christology, and ethics in the Gospel of Luke is surprising. Elisa M. Klein situates this in the context of philosophical and early Jewish conceptions of emotion and highlights the significance of disgust in the Gospel.

How can we change our minds about the standards we use to change our minds? Leading philosophers, historians, and scholars of religion take up this paradox, engaging critically with the theory of rational self-criticism set out in The View from Within: testing, instantiating, extending, and challenging it.

Arie W. Zwiep traces the history of biblical interpretation from antiquity to the present. He shows how text, reader, and context interact to shape meaning and give rise to a plurality of interpretations, and how changing historical and cultural contexts continue to reshape the understanding of Scripture.

In twelve revised and expanded essays on the Johannine writings, Michael Theobald takes up central debates - the genesis of the Corpus Iohanneum, the Johannine Lord's Supper - and turns his attention to questions of reception history, such as the interpretation of the Gospel in mysticism.